Woolsey: Unvetted Foreign Workers at US Airports

As evidence grows that a bomb likely brought down a Russian jetliner over Egypt, former CIA Director James Woolsey said Friday that there is a "reasonably good chance" the same thing can happen to a U.S. flight because of how airport workers are being hired.

"They used to be vetted," Woolsey, who served in President Bill Clinton's administration, told Fox News' "America's Newsroom" about airport workers. "Now, quite a few of them are foreign nationals who have just worker Visas. They're treated like agricultural workers."

But such workers can do "a lot more damage in the baggage handling area of an airline than you can if you're a terrorist, than you can do in the middle of a wheat field," said Woolsey.

Woolsey said that he does not know if the Transportation Security Administration is hiring foreign workers, but told the program that a private company that has recently acquired contracts at least 12 to 13 airports, including "Phoenix, Arizona, Detroit, and so forth across the country," is hiring "lots of foreign workers that are not vetted" and has recently come to be "in charge of baggage handling areas."

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